MUSIC140 Lecture 2: Music 140 September 20
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Gospel is after civil war: unique to north america, protestant to convert slaves, they go bibles, and slaves read them, particularly the old testament, especially the israelites and the egyptians, comparisons to israelites who were slaves, african americans really took to christianity. Adoption of european hymns: spiritual based on aligned hymn, whoever was leading the service, would sing a line, and then the congregation would pray, hymns got the same treatment as the work song, sweeping into pitches. 12 measure phrases: unique to blues a a b lyric pattern, line of lyrics, repeat, new lyric, similar to work songs precursor to blues difficult because of no recordings and no worksheets call and response between guitar and voice, sing and answer with guitar assosiciative coherence, to associate or connect to make sense, make sense of them by sticking them together floating pool of verse.
